WW archive > Issue 867 - 26 May 2011
Inspirational feats and heroic failure
The Paris Commune teaches us valuable lessons, writes Nick Rogers
Letters
19th century; Stolen land; PCS conference; Fish nor fowl; Lost grip; Big lesson; Fat chance; Voting tactics
The sigh of the oppressed - part 1
Jack Conrad examines Marx and Engels and their criticism of passive materialism, theological atheism and religion
Income supplement
Robbie Rix points out where our readers and supporters come in
Truth, memory and distortion
Ben Lewis reviews Peter Watkins's (director) 'La Commune' 2000, DVD
The sigh of the oppressed - part 2
Jack Conrad continues his examination of Marx and Engels and their criticism of passive materialism, theological atheism and religion
The Second Empire and the Paris Commune
This is the final excerpt in the current series from Karl Kautsky's 'Republic and social democracy in France', translated by Ben Lewis[1] and published in English for the first time. Kautsky begins his discussion of the Commune by examining the situation in France under emperor Napoleon III
Give up on Tusc
'If there was a serious prospect of shifting Labour towards the left, no serious Marxist could stand aside from this.' Peter Taaffe should live up to his words, says Peter Manson
Democracy against 'privacy'
The wooden spoon goes to the Alliance for Workers' Liberty, writes James Turley
Victims are not to blame
We have been offered a glimpse of the chauvinist and sexist prejudices that are rife in society, argues Eddie Ford